Hair Love – by Matthew A. Cherry

The 2020 Oscar-winner animated short, based on the true story of Deandre Arnold and financed by a Kickstarter campaign

2019 | 5 - 10 | Animation | Dramedy | Identity | USA

Stephen is an African American dad. His young daughter Zuri keeps watching the tutorial video of her mother (voiced by Awkward Black Girl and Insecure star Issa Rae) teaching her how to style her kinky hair. The woman is waiting for her family in the hospital. It is therefore important for Stephen to style Zuri’s…

Feb 12, 2020

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The White Wall Gives Asbestos Warriors a Voice

Exclusively on Good Short Films, the trailer for the upcoming short film by Andrea Brusa and Marco Scotuzzi, selected at Clermont-Ferrand 2020

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A story of grief, based on sadly true events, to report the incurable disease of asbestos, ending with a “surreal, almost dreamlike” twist. The White Wall is the new short film directed by Andrea Brusa and Marco Scotuzzi, and explores the people and lives dealing with the impact of the killing fiber. The short is…

Jan 31, 2020

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Lago Film Fest 2020, The Woodstock Of Short Films Wants You

From 24 July to 1 August, Revine Lago is taken over by Italy's biggest short films party: the call is open

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Nine days of screenings, premieres, events, concerts, workshops, artistic performances and meetings. This year (from 24 July to 1 August, 2020) marks the sixteenth edition of Lago Film Fest, the International Festival of Independent Cinema. There is nothing to do: Lago with its programme confirms as a an absolute godsend for fans of short and…

Jan 25, 2020

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Angie Rowntree, the Rebel of Feminist Porn: “Pleasure Empowers Us, It Humanizes Us”

We met the founder of Sssh.com, who tells us her way to represent sexuality and her last two films.

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Continuing our journey into the world of feminist porn and its short films. This time our coverage of sexuality representation far from the mainstream shores gets us onto Sssh.com, the oldest feminist porn site on the web having started in 1999. Founder and director Angie Rowntree has spoken at SXSW with Shine Louise Houston (CrashPad…

Nov 1, 2019

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Guilt – by Moisés Aisemberg

"Dulce Doror" director offers us a short film about sexual impulses in adolescence and child abuse

15 – 20 | 2018 | Childhood | Drama | Live-Action | Mexico

Moisés Aisemberg was able to make Guilt (La culpa), a short film about sexual impulses in adolescence, repression and child abuse, a meager, precise, and very tough film, like a documentary. Author of Dulce Dolor, an intriguing short about the need to be honest with oneself, the Mexican helmer directs another rigorous and incisive short,…

Sep 2, 2019

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The 2020 Oscar-winner animated short, based on the true story of Deandre Arnold and financed by a Kickstarter campaign

2019 | 5 - 10 | Animation | Dramedy | Identity | USA

Exclusively on Good Short Films, the trailer for the upcoming short film by Andrea Brusa and Marco Scotuzzi, selected at Clermont-Ferrand 2020

From 24 July to 1 August, Revine Lago is taken over by Italy's biggest short films party: the call is open

We met the founder of Sssh.com, who tells us her way to represent sexuality and her last two films.

"Dulce Doror" director offers us a short film about sexual impulses in adolescence and child abuse

15 – 20 | 2018 | Childhood | Drama | Live-Action | Mexico

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Soy negra, soy marica y soy puta – by Hugo Meijer & Cas van der Pas

A documentary about Diana Navarro, a lawyer, trade unionist and prostitute who's fighting for LGBTQ rights

(Italiano) Good Short Films presenta la prima Private View all’iQOS Embassy di Milano

Diary

10 years of war reporting around the world in this moving and very powerful video-testament by British photojournalist Tim Hetherington.

Sergeant Slaughter, My Big Brother

Tom Hardy plays a temperamental aspiring soldier in a story of brotherly love and strife.

Harry Grows Up

New York is a tough place to find love. Especially for an 18-month-old living on his own.

92 Dreamin

Brooklyn, 1992. A lonely skater gets thrown in a dreamy virtual world, where everything is possible

The 10 Best Short Films of 2017 (Available Online)

From China to Lebanon, here are the best of the best (strictly available online!) from an incredible, unpredictable year for shorts

Yardbird

A solitary young girl is forced to come out of hiding to face the town bullies, but the thing she fears the most is herself.

Autobiographical Scene Number 6882

A group of friends watches as one of them attempts to jump into the water from a bridge.

Chop My Money – by Theo Anthony

This world is not the world: a day in the life of three street kids in the Eastern Congo

A Reasonable Request – by Andrew Laurich

How to re-build a father-son relationship in an unconventional way.

Larry – by Jacob Chase

A man, a parking lot, a friendship: a tender and scary tale about our loneliness

Happiness – by Steve Cutts

Can we buy happiness? Are we really trapped? An economic textbook about our contemporary society

The Board – by David Shane

Practical tips from a teenager busy with the opposite sex

The Boy with a Camera for a Face

A allegorical fairy tale about a boy born with a camera instead of a head, told in rhyme.

The Artist is Absent: A Short Film on Martin Margiela

A portrait of the most elusive and influential of fashion designer, through archival footage and illustrious guests.

Made

A Japanese lady holds an intriguing double life, but her secret is about to be discovered.

It’s No Game – by Oscar Sharp

In this day and age, how useful are screenwriters?

The Saddest Boy in the World

The birthday party of the saddest boy in the world.

Random Stop

A gripping first person POV reenactment of the tragic last moments of the life of a police officer.

Conventional

A horror film actress deals with her fall from stardom and learn the true nature of the genre.

Dr. Easy

A robot with medical training is sent to negotiate a dangerous situation.

Memorize

How to fight crime in an high-tech, action packed future? Through a chip that records our entire lives.

Eat My Shit

The moving story of a girl whose butthole is where her mouth should be.